_FORTIFY_SOURCE for std::vector

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Jun 1 12:54:00 GMT 2012


On 06/01/2012 01:42 PM, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Hi
>
> a bunch of minor comments, first:
> 1- What happens with make check-debug? I suppose the debug-mode checks
> trigger before the check in normal code, and the testcase doesn't pass.
> Maybe for this kind of work you need a // { dg-require-normal-mode "" }

I'm now running "make check-debug", didn't know about it.

> 2- Something sound weird with debug-mode which doesn't throw, just
> errors out, and the new check in normal-mode which throws. If there are
> other reasons to not throw, per Jakub's comment, I would support the idea.

Yes, that's true.

> 2- Make sure to have the test variable in the testcases.

I've seen the variable, but I don't understand how to use it.  I would 
like to add something about it to the testing documentation.

> 3- We definitely need a comment explaining *who* provided _M_range_check

Sorry, I don't understand this suggestion.

> 4- Maybe I'm misremembering, sorry in case, but Isn't:
>
> #if defined _FORTIFY_SOURCE && _FORTIFY_SOURCE > 0
>
> the same as:
>
> #if _FORTIFY_SOURCE > 0
>
> ?

I think you're right, but I'm just copying literally what GNU libc is 
doing.  I can change it to the shorter version if you want me to.


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